The Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), pulls into Guam for a scheduled port visit.
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PHILIPPINE SEA (Sep. 24, 2016) The Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), pulls into Guam for a scheduled port visit. Ronald Reagan, the Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 5 flagship, is on patrol supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jamaal Liddell) File# 160924-N-NF288-021
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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